We investigated the neural correlates of semantic priming by using event-related fMRI to record blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) responses while participants performed speeded lexical decisions (word/nonword) on visually presented related versus unrelated prime-target pairs. A long stimulus onset asynchrony of 1000 ms was employed, which allowed for increased controlled processing and select...

Intrasexual competition for mates or resources important for reproduction often leads to the establishment of dominance relationships that influence an individual’s reproductive success. Although dominance can be an honest indicator of health or immunocompetence, the attainment and maintenance of dominance status can also influence an individual’s ability to invest in immunity, making it diffic...

It is the first study which tries to explore the influence of interpersonal competition on subordinate job status in the workplace. Interpersonal competition is defined as rent-seeking behavior (RSB) in this research. We also examine the influence of interpersonal relationships, known as Guanxi in Chinese society, on subordinate job status in the workplace. Finally, this study combines RSB with...

The tax big data supervision system and method, including the distributed real-time management control deployed in superior unit each subordinate unit, is used to receive rules, issue rules System: writes massive source at same level into message queue Kafka real time, uses stream computing engine Flink compare calculate based on write that conforms rules. Enter alarm information Kafka; lower-l...

An event-related fMRI paradigm was used to investigate brain activity during the reading of sentences containing either a lexically ambiguous word or an unambiguous control word. Higher levels of activation occurred during the reading of sentences containing a lexical ambiguity. Furthermore, the activated cortical network differed, depending on: (1) whether the sentence contained a balanced (i....

Employee satisfaction is supremely important in an organization because it is what productivity depends on. Satisfied employees are more likely to be creative and innovative and come up with breakthroughs that allow a company to grow and change positively with time and changing market conditions. The objectives of the paper are: i) to measure the level of employee satisfaction at Tata Steel, ii...

When fighting is costly, avoiding contests with superior opponents should confer fitness advantages. Black howler monkeys, Alouatta pigra, produce loud calls that reliably indicate the minimum number of male group members. Using playback recordings, I manipulated ‘numeric odds’ (number of defending to intruding males) to examine whether alpha males use loud calls to assess relative fighting abi...

Utsuro et al., 2000) proposed statistical method for learning dependency preference of Japanese subordinate clauses, in which scope embedding preference of subordinate clauses is exploited as a useful information source for disambiguating dependencies between subordinate clauses. Following (Utsuro et al., 2000), this paper presents detailed results of evaluating the proposed method by comparing...